Prof. Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI: Polish Tradition of Freedom

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Citizens of the Republic saw freedom not just as the liberty of an individual but as an opportunity to decide jointly about statutory laws.

Andrzej DUDA: The pride of the Republic of Poland

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The 230th anniversary of the enactment of the Polish Constitution, the first in Europe, should be an inspiring holiday for the whole of today’s Europe...

Prof. Wojciech ROSZKOWSKI: First European Constitution

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The Constitution of 3 May showed the determination of the national elites and their ability to stand up for the interests of the state.

Stanisław ŻARYN: Fooling with facts

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Poland has been a target of ill-founded accusations that exploit the history of WWII and unfair interpretations of the relations between the Poles and...

Stuart ISACOFF: The Chopin Competition: The View from America

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Not only awards, but also participation in the Chopin Competition is a serious step in the career of many musicians.

Prof. Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI: Anti-Muslims sentiments without Muslims?”: or how to frame “right-wing” Poles

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n many European countries the question concerning Muslim immigrants and refugees, Muslim minorities, Islam and radical political Islamism become a cen...

John ALLISON: My Moniuszko

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For all that we may be surprised when even well-versed music lovers in (say) London, Paris or New York remain entirely unaware of Moniuszko, this is n...

Jan ŚLIWA: Hidden Holocaust

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In the consciousness of the West, World War II is seen as a struggle between the forces of Good and the forces of Evil, where the noble West, with the...

Prof. Salvatore BABONES: Can Poland Redraw Europe's Economic Map?

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Despite the break-up of empires following World War One and the imposition of the Iron Curtain after World War Two, geography reasserted itself after ...

Mateusz MORAWIECKI: The Unknown War at the Heart of Europe

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In the Communist bloc countries, everything was a kind of a game of pretense, one to be understood by only those who experienced oppression on a daily...

Michał KURTYKA: Solidarity and environment protection

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It is only by putting citizens and justice first that we can make the European Green Deal stand the test of time and avoid a multi-speed Europe.

Prof. Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI: Imperial tempting of Europe

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Let us not forget that it was the resistance of the Poles and the Hungarians, peoples with an acute sense of national identity and freedom, that broke...

Jarosław SZAREK: We are deeply aware of our shared history

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A quarter of a century after the end of the Second World War, shots were fired again and people were killed in Gdansk, the very place where the war st...

Prof. Wojciech ROSZKOWSKI: On democracy between the nations of Europe

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Considering the history of Polish national uprisings of the nineteenth century, one can learn heroism, patriotism, but not effectiveness, geopolitics ...